The queen doing the Roman salute
To be fair, before Hitler stigmatised it, it was a pretty standard gesture. Not saying the queen isn’t a disgusting human being, but this picture probably isn’t actually of her doing the heil.
It could be, as @Aru@lemmygrad.ml said, a ‘Roman’ salute, which was already standard in Fascist Italy. (It’s highly unlikely to be a Bellamy salute: a U.S. phenomenon.)
I’ve researched this before and it’s highly likely that it was a heil (albeit maybe done ‘just for fun’ judging from the casual setting).
Why would you do the salute “just for fun” ?
Because it was a casual environment (rather than something more formal like a school or a funeral) and the video likely wasn’t addressed to any Fascist officials either (being a mere home video), so there was no ceremonial obligation to perform one. The possibility that they did it mostly to amuse themselves wouldn’t contradict their profascism, of course.
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she was a hoi4 player 🤢🤮
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The Anglo Empire is a league of it’s own.
No need to compare it to the short-lived nazi Germany.Hitler bows to her, she doesn’t to him.
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This is the problem I have with so many westerner’s obsession with the term fascism, and that “oh no we’re becoming fascist!!”.
Fascism (a specific historical form of capitalist-imperialism in the 1920s-40s) is only allowed to be demonized because it was one of the few historical forms of colonialism directed against white europeans. British, european, and now US colonizers were doing the exact same thing, and killing far more people for hundreds of years in the global south, yet you don’t hear ppl scared of their countries potentially “becoming british colonialists.”
Fascism proved to be unstable, and it collapsed into the far more stable parliamentarism / bourgeois democratic form of government, with its colonialism and then neo-colonialism that dominates the world today.
Its an implicit chauvinism that their countries are somehow better because the only genocides they carried out were against indigenous africans, americans, and asians.
I always tell people fascism is the name they gave colonization when it affected white people. By separating the two, Western people can deal with the trauma it caused without addressing their own guilt in doing the same to others.
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regardless or not if she was actually buds with adolf or threw the roman salute up in her spare time we can all agree that she was an extremely anticommunist figure, a huge fuckwit, and the world is better now that she’s dead. if only her relatives would suffer the same fate. inshallah (in a video game)
Ofc she was anti communist, if communists would’ve been in power, she would’ve lost her status symbol
